Raven of Water

Chapter 29: Beginning of the End

I awoke when I sensed movement beside me, and I soon opened my eyes to find Kai spreading out my dress on the foot of the bed. When the demon noticed I was awake, he gave me a small smile before whispering. "It's time, Lex."

Time.

Time for what, I wasn't sure, so instead of sulking like the man was currently doing, I chuckled softly.

"I told you to stop frowning or you'll get stuck that way."

"Get dressed," he said, ignoring my words as he leaned over and kissed the top of my head, his gesture letting me know he hadn't reverted back to his asshole state after we'd fucked. He was just being broody. Dramatic. 

"Hmm," I drolled as he stepped away from me to offer a stern look, "are you going to put on a shirt? I don't think you should. You should stay shirtless."

"Lex," he sighed, turning to his dresser and fishing through it for a t-shirt that he slipped on, much to my disappointment.

"You're no fun. You weren't supposed to put that on." I frowned, slipping from bed then wandering naked over to his desk and admiring the intellectual mess thrown all over the thing.

The collection looked like an embodiment of Kai: random articles, books in ancient languages I couldn't read, and one book about Gaia and the goddess myth that was dog-eared and worn to the point that it was held together by more scotch tape than book glue.

It was a weird collection of items for a servant of evil but a fitting collection for Kai.

With a hearty sigh, I strode back over to the bed and grabbed the dress then slid it on slowly. I felt the comforting weight of the weapon in the dress pocket and the curious eyes of Kai on me as I slipped the dress over my skin as I wondered idly where all the underclothes had gone. They'd probably been ruined by my torture and gallivanting through the wilderness. Or by Kai earlier. I wasn't sure anymore.

When I smirked and whirled around to face Kai, he was giving me a dangerous look.

Like he wanted to eat me.

"What were you looking at?"

"Your ass."

I'd expected some sort of morose musing from him, not such a lighthearted response, so I laughed, prompting Kai to smile a genuinely heart-stopping smile. The sight of the man's amusement made my knees weak, and I sighed in contentment as his expression reminded me of the real him, the normal him.

The Kai I loved.

"Come on." I grinned, stalking over to the man and wrapping my arms around his waist. "The sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can go back to bed."

Something in my words led the man's expression to grow pained, but I kissed that look away. Everything would end as it should. I knew that.

If only Kai could see it, too.

In response to my prompting, Kai huffed and turned to his wardrobe, opening it and pulling out a thick black sweater that he wrapped around me. Curious, I wordlessly slipped the thing on then turned and grabbed the animal hide scarf from where it was resting near the fire before wrapping that around my neck.

The portal had to be somewhere cold.

Now that I was ready, I ordered the man. "Alright, Take us there, my demon."

"I love you, Lex."

His words took me by surprise, and I didn't have time to respond before he wrapped us in his magic and deposited us somewhere frigid where the wind whipped my hair around violently. Hissing against the chill, I stepped closer to Kai as my disorientation abated, freeing me to look around to find we were atop a mountain. It wasn't snowy, but it was high enough that the chill and wind had me shrinking into the warmth of the man beside me.